Introduction to Akka Actors

This chapter introduces the concept of an Actor as an approach to the development of concurrent programs. In particular we focus on the Scala Akka implementation of the Actor model based on release 2.2.3 (the current release at the time of writing). Note that Scala 2.10 also has its own scala.actor implementation of the Actor model however the Akka approach is more sophisticated and is likely to migrate into Scala.